Why does Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid hate cancer patients?

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The Senate’s leading Democrat berated CNN Congressional correspondent, Dana Bash, at a Wednesday press conference for having the temerity to ask why the Senate refused to act on House Republicans ‘piece meal’ spending bills that would fund a variety of government programs to reduce the impact of the current federal shutdown. John Carlson explores the verbal exchange and Majority Leader Reid’s cavalier dismissal of cancer patients that could be helped if the Senate were to simply vote on a spending bill that would fund the National Institute of Health.